Narrative Techniques In The Holy Quran With Special

Citing Mustansir (2000:4), Sulaiman (2003:1) argues that, “The Qur’an like the Bible, isrnan acknowledged literary masterpiece .But unfortunately, it has not yet received the kindrnof attention that the Bible acquires”. As a result, the Holy Qur’an is understood as arnspiritual scripture only. Thus, it is wrongly perceived that this book is endowed with a lotrnof hard and fast religious rules and regulations.rnHowever, even though spirituality is one aspect of the Holy Qur’an, it is also full ofrnnarrative techniques and devices. Referring to Mustansir (2000:3), Rukiya (2004:3)rnstates that the Holy Qur’an, “…tells stories, cites parables, uses figurative speech, andrndraws character sketches...” Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to explorernthese techniques and avoid the misconception people developed towards the scripture.rnIn order to explore such narrative techniques as narrative voice, narrative time, narrativernmodes and, character and characterization, related literatures in the area, are reviewedrnfrom various source materials to enrich the thesis with theoretical ideas and concepts.rnMore importantly, five sample chapters (Surahs) are selected from the Qur’an asrnnarrative texts for practical analysis. In these five chapters, analysis is made to find outrnthe identity of the narrator (author’s voice). And again, narrative time is explored. Thisrnmeans that analysis is made to know whether the episodes of the five chapters are inrnchronological order or not, to clearly distinguish the proportion between the story timernand the discourse time and to recognize how often events are repeated compared to theirrnoccurrence.rnMoreover, those five chapters are also seen from the perspective of their presentations.rnThis is to say that individual chapters are treated to differentiate whether they arernpresented in summary or scenic modes. Lastly, the personality traits of characters inrnthose chapters are depicted. In the last chapter conclusion is made based on thernanalysis that has been done.

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